Monday, January 26, 2015

11th grade, week 9

Monday
Students will be able to identify integrity in real life situations. Students will be able to design a list of interview questions.

  • College visit debrief - U of M
  • empathy conversation presentations 
  • design your interview - this should be done by Friday (list of questions, person interviewed, and narrative back to Mrs. Rose.)

Tuesday
Students will be able to analyze and discuss various resume designs.
  • Conversation presentations?
  • Interview questions - share with one other person in this classroom
  • Resume formats
    • As we move through the classroom, answer the question depending on which round we are on. (Example: During round 1, we will all answer the round 1 question on our sheet. Round 2, all answer round 2.)
Wednesday
Students will be able to 



Thursday
Students will be able to 

Friday
Students will be able to analyze information and discuss the dilemma presented. 

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Life Skills, Career, and Leadership, week 8

Monday
Students will be able to demonstrate positive communication skills during an argument.
  • Finish recording skits
  • Are you ready for your college visit?
Tuesday
Students will be able to demonstrate positive communication skills during an argument.
Wednesday
Students will get prepared for college visits. Students will recognize real life examples of honesty and integrity.
Thursday
Students will be visiting universities and gathering information. 

Students not college visiting today:
  • Virtual Tours of universities. Take notes and fill out as much information from the scavenger hunt as you can.
    • Feel free to Google virtual tours of a college that you are interested in!
  • Scholarship Searches! Start looking for ways to fund your education!
  • ACT prep? Homework time?
Friday
Students will be able to debrief and reflect on their college visit experiences.

Friday, January 16, 2015

11th grade, week 7

Monday
I can identify positive and negative conversation 
  • Conversation practice - show off your positive OR negative conversation skills
Tuesday
I can define empathy. I can define the rules of fair fighting.
  • Empathy activity
    • Activity reflection
  • What are the rules of fair fighting?
Wednesday
 I can define the rules of fair fighting. I can apply empathetic conversation skills. 
  • Finish our discussion on fair fighting
  • What do you do when you are angry?
  • Show off your empathy skills in conversation
Thursday
I can apply empathetic conversation skills. 
  • Show your skit rough draft to Mrs. Rose
  • Final draft of skit 
    • start practicing OR filming
  • Who do you want to interview? What are you going to interview them about? (Choose something in the past that will be meaningful to that person.)
    • Example: I started talking to my husband about the day Lennon died. His first thought was NOT John Lennon the musician, but Vladimir Lennon, a past Russian political leader.
Friday - early release
I can practice my interviewing skills.
  • Choose 5 interview questions
  • What are we looking for in an interview?
    • Confidence - eye contact, posture
    • body language - attitude
    • greeting - handshake, hello
  • Practice with your classmates.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

11th Grade, week 6

Monday

  • Communication warm-up
  • review goals
  • review what a personal mission statement is
    • work on mission statements
  • All goals and mission statements final drafts are due tomorrow!.
Tuesday
  • Lap top cart!
  • Post goals, career presentation and vision board
  • Change description of blog to be your personal mission statement
  • start looking into a college to visit
  • IMPORTANT DATES
    • end of trimester: Feb 27th
    • College Visit day: Jan 22
    • Job Shadow Days: Feb 5, 12
Wednesday
  • Empathy in Communication
  • ACT benchmark starting at 10:15am
Thursday
  • Empathy in Communication presentation